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vaccinated against polio. WHO said
initial outbreak investigations show the
cases are linked to an ongoing vaccine-
derived outbreak in Chad that was first
detected last year and is now spreading
in Chad and Cameroon.

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“There is local circulation in Sudan and

continued sharing of transmission with
Chad,” the U.N. agency said, adding that
genetic sequencing confirmed numerous
introductions of the virus into Sudan
from Chad.

WHO said it had found 11 additional

vaccine-derived polio cases in Sudan and
that the virus had also been identified in
environmental samples. There are
typically many more unreported cases
for every confirmed polio patient. The
highly infectious disease can spread
quickly in contaminated water and most
often strikes children under 5.

In rare instances, the live polio virus in

the oral vaccine can mutate into a form
capable of sparking new outbreaks.

Last week, WHO and partners declared

that the African continent was free of
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On Monday, WHO warned that the risk

of further spread of the vaccine-derived
polio across central Africa and the Horn
of Africa was “high,” noting the large-
scale population movements in the
region.

More than a dozen African countries are

currently battling outbreaks of polio
caused by the virus including Angola
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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many

of the large-scale vaccination campaigns
needed to stamp out polio have been
disrupted across Africa and elsewhere,
leaving millions of children vulnerable
to infection.

In April, WHO and its partners

reluctantly recommended a temporary
halt to mass polio immunization
campaigns, recognizing the move could
lead to a resurgence of the disease. In
May, they reported that 46 campaigns to
vaccinate children against polio had been
suspended in 38 countries, mostly in
Africa, because of the coronavirus
pandemic.

Some of the campaigns have recently

been re-started, but health workers need
to vaccinate more than 90% of children
in their efforts to eradicate the paralytic
disease.

Health officials had initially aimed to

wipe out polio by 2000, a deadline
repeatedly pushed back and missed. Wild
polio remains endemic in Afghanistan
and Pakistan; both countries also are
struggling to contain outbreaks of
vaccine-derived polio.

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